Renaissance Personhood : Materiality, Taxonomy, Process

Curran, Kevin (EDT)

Edinburgh University Press（2021/12発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 248 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781474448093
• DDC分類 306.094

Full Description

Unfolding as a series of materially oriented studies ranging from chairs, machines and doors to trees, animals and food, this book retells the story of Renaissance personhood as one of material relations and embodied experience, rather than of emergent notions of individuality and freedom. The book assembles an international team of leading scholars to formulate a new account of personhood in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, one that starts with the objects, environments and physical processes that made personhood legible.

Contents

Acknowledgments

List of Contributors

1. What Was Personhood?, Kevin Curran

Part I. Materialities of Personhood: Chairs, Machines, Doors

2. Daughters, Chairs, and Liberty in Margaret Cavendish's The Religious, Stephanie Elsky

3. The Inner Lives of Renaissance Machines, Wendy Beth Hyman

4. Two Doors: Personhood and Housebreaking in Semayne's Case and The Comedy of Errors, Colby Gordon

Part II. Taxonomies of Personhood: Status, Species, Race

5. Should (Bleeding) Trees Have Standing?, Joseph Campana

6. Aping Personhood, Holly Dugan

7. Race, Personhood, and the Human in The Tempest, Amanda Bailey

Part III. Processes of Personhood: Eating, Lusting, Mapping

8. Liquid Macbeth, David B. Goldstein

9. Things in Action: Shakespeare's Sonnet 129, Macbeth, and Levinas on Shame, John Michael Archer

10. Edward Herbert's Cosmopolitan State, Gregory Kneidel

Index